Starting this spring, people who own an Xbox 360 and a Kinect sensor will be able to use avatars to talk to each other in a variety of virtual worlds, with their avatars not only mimicking their ...

After a long wait, Microsoft today is releasing Avatar Kinect, the online video chat application for Xbox that uses the Kinect sensor to track facial expressions and mouth movements and translate them ...

New Avatar Kinect software lets you video chat using your Xbox cartoon. It uses the Kinect sensor bar to track your facial movements -- read on for all the info. Luke Westaway Senior editor Luke ...

Microsoft on Monday released Avatar Kinect, a feature for the hands-free controller that will let users set up a virtual presence to interact with up to seven other friends in up to 24 virtual stages.

The immense financial success of the Kinect wasn’t the only thing that Microsoft had to announce at this year’s CES conference—they also had some fun Kinect gadgetry to entertain the audience with.

In an update to their blog today, Microsoft let loose news about a feature that most people did not know that Kinect had, video chatting. Yes, if you have a Kinect, and your buddy has a Kinect, you ...

Microsoft has unveiled Avatar Kinect at its CES 2011 keynote presentation. The social suite uses the peripheral's motion sensing capabilities to translate the user's gestures and facial expressions ...

Microsoft’s got its own emerging chat tool, though it’s not on a mobile device, or even a phone for that matter. The new video chat integration comes on the newly revealed Kinect, Microsoft’s latest ...

Microsoft said yesterday that Kinect is to act as a bridge between "the boardroom and the living room," and will have its software upgraded to allow it to work with the company's new business-aimed ...

You knew it was coming, right? Hot on the heels of getting leaked a wee bit early Microsoft has made official the rebadging of a device desperately seeking a new name: "Project Natal" is no more, ...

According to Kotaku, anyone lucky enough to have gotten an email invite regarding access to the recent Kinect beta testing will find that they can only chat privately online with other Kinect beta ...

Video chat doesn’t sound like a very sexy hack (unless it’s sexxxy video chat, which more just a frame of mind), but UC-Davis researchers might change your mind. They’ve used two Kinects to make a 3D ...